Parallel World: Estrus Korea - The Second Visit (2)
Flash. As always, once I selected the keyword, a bright light filled my vision. When the light faded, the ordinary dormitory ceiling came into view once more. I was still lying on the bed.
Welcome to the Parallel World.
This is a parallel-world Korea where continuous and dangerous environmental pollution has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.
As a result of environmental pollution, humans are experiencing hormonal abnormalities.
Due to hormonal abnormalities, women experience periodic estrus cycles.
Due to hormonal abnormalities, men have almost no sexual desire.
Because men's sexual desire has disappeared due to hormonal abnormalities, drugs that forcibly induce erections are actively distributed on the market.
The erection drugs sold on the market have no side effects.
During estrus periods, sexual crimes committed by women occur frequently.
Most men pursue spiritual love and platonic relationships.
A man experiencing a natural erection is considered extremely lewd in this world.
A man experiencing a natural erection is an extremely humiliating and shameful sight.
The world where women have estrus cycles. The same guide windows I saw the first time I came here floated before my eyes again before slowly disappearing. Of course, I steadied my mind while reviewing those guide windows once more.
'Well... if I just don't go outside for two hours, nothing should happen, right? Or maybe it's not even estrus season for the women right now... Anyway, there shouldn't be any big problems.'
After getting into trouble last time by naively following Lee Ayoung, I planned to just kill time this visit and collect the reward. Thinking about it, it probably wasn't estrus season right now. When I came to the parallel world last week, I heard the campus broadcast about the estrus period, and it clearly said "this week" was when the women would be in heat. So didn't that mean next week wouldn't be estrus season? Then today the women wouldn't be in estrus...
—Zzt. At that moment, I heard the sound of speakers installed on streetlights across campus blaring beyond the dormitory window. Usually there were no announcements on Saturdays, so why were the campus speakers suddenly going off?
—This is a campus announcement.
—This week is the female students' estrus period.
—During the estrus period, all female students are recognized as being in a mentally and physically weakened state.
—Sexual crimes committed by female students during the estrus period will not be punished.
—Therefore, male students' careful attention and care are required to prevent any unfortunate incidents.
—We repeat.
—This week is the female students' estrus period.
—Therefore, male students' careful attention and care are required to prevent any unfortunate incidents.
'...What?'
The sudden campus announcement. It was the same as the one I heard last time. No, it wasn't just the content that was the same. The voice hadn't changed even a single bit.
'It's a recorded broadcast?'
It seemed a pre-recorded message was playing automatically for a specific situation. That aside... why was that message playing now? I clearly heard that broadcast when I came here last Wednesday. So if a week had passed, the estrus period should have ended, right? Or did time flow differently in the parallel world? Maybe a month or even a year had passed here since my last visit?
Unable to contain my curiosity, I got up from the bed. I went straight to my desk and turned on the laptop. After it booted up, I checked the date on the computer. If my guess was right, the flow of time would be...
'...It's the same?'
I had thought much more time would have passed since my last visit, but the date was identical to the original world.
'What the...' I couldn't figure it out at all. But my curiosity didn't last long. As usual, when I opened an internet window, I found news articles on the portal site that seemed to answer my question.
—Government announces one-week extension of estrus caution period.
—Estrus cycles becoming longer and more frequent due to environmental pollution.
—Hormonal abnormalities growing increasingly severe.
My curiosity was satisfied, but I didn't feel particularly moved. Just like I resolved earlier, I planned to simply relax and pass the time this time.
'Well... anyway, if I just hold out in the dorm room for two hours, it shouldn't matter...'
After organizing my thoughts like that, I surfed the internet for a few dozen minutes. While doing so, I happened to glance to the side and saw the quest timer steadily decreasing in the corner of my vision.
[Time Remaining: 1 hour 11 minutes 45 seconds]
[Time Remaining: 1 hour 11 minutes 44 seconds]
[Time Remaining: 1 hour 11 minutes 43 seconds]
'Time's flying by...'
While I was just killing time like that, I suddenly remembered that I had enhanced an item with the quest reward from yesterday. As soon as the thought occurred to me, I reached into my pocket and pulled out the enhanced item.
The clicker. When I thought of a clicker, all I could recall were the few times I'd seen one on TV being used to train pets. It was the kind where, whenever a dog performed the right behavior, you'd click the clicker to give an auditory signal and then reward it with a few pieces of kibble. In short, a normal clicker was just something that made a "click" sound when pressed and had no other function.
But the item I obtained through the quest had a completely different function. Anyone who heard the sound of this clicker up close would have their memory erased. Originally, it would erase exactly one hour of memory, but...
◈ A clicker that makes a sound when pressed.
◈ Place it near the desired person's ear and click to delete that amount of their memory.
◈ The effect does not activate if the click sound is heard from more than 15 cm away from the ear.
◈ Frequent use may cause memory problems for the target.
◈ The central timer allows time to be set in minute increments.
◈ Memory deletion of up to 2 hours is possible.
◈ Ordinary people cannot properly see or touch this item.
After finishing the previous quest, I was faced with item enhancement choices. Among the available items, I chose the memory deletion clicker. I had considered enhancing the Itch Spray instead, but after reading the description that said the item would be destroyed if enhancement failed, I changed my mind. The Itch Spray was an item I used quite often, and I didn't want it to break and cause inconvenience in various ways. In the end, the enhancement succeeded, and the existing Command Clicker - Memory Deletion item was upgraded.
I picked up the clicker and examined its shape. Its size and form hadn't changed much. However... a timer had been added below the head where the button was, in the part that served as the handle. In the center was a small dial-type timer, and below it was a section that displayed the set time like a digital clock. When I experimentally turned the dial-type timer to the right...
—Tick. Tick. Tick.
[0:03]
'So setting it like this means three minutes are configured?'
Unable to suppress my strange curiosity, I brought the clicker to my own ear.
'If I click it like this, will my memory be erased for about three minutes?'
A slight urge to press it once rose up, but I decided against it. It didn't seem like a wise choice to carelessly erase my own memories. After finishing my inspection of the enhanced memory deletion clicker, I tucked it back into my pocket. I didn't know when I'd use it, but if I used it well, it seemed like it could be quite fun.
'What should I do with the remaining time... Should I just sleep?'
The quest time was two hours. I'd already spent a few dozen minutes surfing the internet, but there was still quite a bit of time left. I fell into thought about what to do with the remaining time.
'If it's estrus season... does that mean any woman I approach will just go along with it?'
Just moments ago I had been determined to quietly pass the time. Probably because I was a bit tired after three consecutive quest days during the university festival from Wednesday to Friday. But after sleeping in on Saturday morning, spending some time browsing the internet, other thoughts gradually began to surface.
'Come to think of it, last time I got gangbanged by Yoon Eun-seol, Song Yena, and Shin So-yeon and ended up sore and exhausted, right? Wouldn't it be better if it was just one person?'
Recalling what happened in this parallel world with the estrus period last time, it didn't seem like such a bad place after all. When I thought about it, this parallel world wasn't all that different from what I had expected regarding the estrus keyword.
—Swish. I looked around. The dormitory room with only me in it after Taeyoung went out. At least it didn't seem like Taeyoung would be back within two hours. In that case...
'If I just seduce some pretty-looking girl and bring her here... wouldn't that work?'
Today was Saturday. It would probably be hard to find female students walking around campus. But what if I tried the women's dormitory...? A chill suddenly ran through my body without me realizing it. The women's dormitory was literally full of women in estrus. If I carelessly went near it, the same thing as last time would definitely happen again. Then... should I go outside? But I quickly abandoned that thought too. If I ran into a group of women on the street, that would be a problem as well. No, I couldn't even guarantee that among them there would be one pretty enough to satisfy me if she tried to rape me. So maybe it really would be better to just quietly spend time in the dorm room this time...
While I was pondering what to do now, a notification sound rang from the phone on my desk (to be precise, the phone that the me in this parallel world supposedly used).
—Patok! Patok! The PapayaTalk notification sound. Who would be messaging me on the weekend? I picked up the phone and immediately checked the chat.
'Kang Dahyun...?'
It was a familiar name. Kang Dahyun. She was the name of the female student who took one class with me. A girl with long black hair and light coffee-colored skin. She had a beautiful figure, so she was the kind of presence that drew the male students' gazes throughout the entire lecture. Whenever I found myself unconsciously looking at her during class, I could feel the male students around me stealing glances at Kang Dahyun as well. I was interested in her, so I remembered her face and name, but I wondered if Kang Dahyun even knew who I was.
'I've run into her a few times during quests... but would she remember me?'
The version of her I encountered during quests always showed a prickly attitude. I didn't know if that was her original personality, but... except for her friends and boyfriend, she always seemed to show only that prickly side. And that girl... was messaging me first in this parallel world. I couldn't figure out the reason. Why had she messaged me? Could it be that in this parallel world, I was her boyfriend? Even if not her boyfriend, were we close here in the parallel world? As I entertained such thoughts, a strange sense of anticipation began to well up.
While I was thinking about this and that without replying to Kang Dahyun's message, another notification sound arrived.
—Patok!
'Huh?'
But what arrived wasn't a message. There was a video about one minute and thirty seconds long that Kang Dahyun had sent me through chat. I touched the video file Kang Dahyun sent to download it. And when I played the video...
—Pa-at. Pa-at. Pa-at. Pa-at. Pa-at.
—Hngh... Oppa... I really like it... Haang... It's really big...
—Haah... Euut! Eu... Euut! Haa...
In it was me lying with both hands tied behind my back, and Yoon Eun-seol riding on top of me, repeatedly slamming her hips down.
'Huh...?'
While I was momentarily flustered by the video I was in, a new message arrived through chat.
I didn't know what was going on, but Kang Dahyun was now blackmailing me with my sex video.
'Hmm...?'
But I didn't feel particularly moved. This was a parallel world. To put it bluntly, even if my sex video spread across the internet... it wouldn't matter, right?
At that moment, bothered by the chat message "Come out in front of the dorm right now," I looked out the window toward the front of the men's dormitory. And there... I could see Kang Dahyun waiting for me in front of the men's dormitory.
Black leather jacket. Tight jeans. Black leather boots that reached up to her knees. Whether because the jeans clung so tightly or because of the knee-high leather boots, Kang Dahyun's leg line was attractive enough to catch the eye even from a distance. On top of that, her characteristic light coffee-colored skin added a strange sensuality. She was looking at her phone... waiting for me.
Seeing Kang Dahyun exuding sexiness, I suddenly thought.
'...Should I just go out?'